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Four people have been arrested after a 20 year old man was stabbed on Stanstead Abbotts High Street.

Police were called to the scene just after two thirty yesterday afternoon. Three teenagers and a 53 year old man are being held in connection with the incident.

The man who was stabbed is still in hospital.

East Herts Chief Inspector Gerry McDonald said

This is an isolated and extremely unusual incident in East Herts and I’d like to reassure the community that we will work hard to identify and bring the offenders to justice.
Four people have been arrested in connection with this incident.
They remain in police custody at this time and significant enquires are on-going.

Detectives in Luton are appealing for witnesses to a stabbing on Friday, October 17. It happened at approximately 5.50pm as the 17 year old student walked along an alleyway next to the Sainsbury's store in Quantock Rise.

He was approached by a group of five men and felt threatened so turned back towards Quantock Rise. As he did so one of the men hit the victim with a dog chain and as he tried to fight back he felt a pain in his chest and fell to the ground.

He managed to get back on to his feet and ran from the scene. When he reached Enterprise Way he realised he had been stabbed and got a taxi to hospital from where the police were called.

Four of the offenders are described as white men; the fifth is described as a black man. They all wore hooded tops and one of the men had a dog.

Anyone with information relating to this incident can contact DC Day, in confidence, at Luton Police Station, on 01582 394316, or Bedfordshire Police on 101, or text information to 07786 200011.

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A man stabbed to death at his house in Luton over the weekend has been named as 20-year-old Jordan Maguire. Police were called to the house in Thrales Close, on the Marsh Farm estate at around 8.15 on Sunday night. T

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder. Olivia Paterson reports.

A post mortem is being carried out today on a 20-year-old who has become the latest murder victim in Luton. The youth - who has been named by residents as Jordan Maguire - was fatally stabbed in the terraced home he shares with his mother.

An ambulance crew and armed police rushed to Thrales Close at around 8.15pm on Sunday where Jordan was found bleeding heavily. He was taken to the Luton and Dunstable hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after his admission.

Detectives said they were keeping an open mind about the motive for the murder, but residents believe it is the latest attack in the gang war between youths from the Marsh Farm and Lewsey Farm Estates in Luton.

Three people have been murdered since September and there have been 11 shootings since the beginning of the year. DCI Stephen Collin, of the Beds, Herts and Cambridgeshire Major Crime Unit, is appealing for information.

He said: "There are three key persons of interest we are seeking in the inquiry. They have been caught on CCTV. They are a black male on a bike, a black male with a dog and white female, probably a teenager, with red dyed hair in a pony tail.

The victim would have known who his attacker or attackers were. It was a targeted attack."